I made this announcement to 54,210 members of the Digital Health group on LinkedIn. If you're on LinkedIn, please do join the group, which allows you to opt in to receiving these announcements in addition to connecting with thousands of other global stakeholders in digital health. Note that I will continue to update this announcement up until sending out the final version via LinkedIn. Dr. Watson, AI, has stumbled in a very costly way at the renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center. As Matthew Herper, Sr. Editor for Pharma & Healthcare at Forbes writes, MD Anderson has benched IBM's Watson in a "setback for artificial intelligence in medicine".

I sent this announcement to 46,383 Digital Health LinkedIn group members. If you're on LinkedIn, please do join the group, which allows you to opt in to receiving these announcements in addition to connecting with thousands of other global stakeholders in digital health. Note that I will continue to update this announcement up until sending out the final version via LinkedIn. Crowdfunding for digital health wearable tech continues to be scorching hot: London-based startup Vinaya's emotion-tracking bracelet recently nabbed 100,000 in just 24 hours on Indiegogo and the Pebble 2 smartwatch has landed over 10 million so far on Kickstarter. A cool new partnership called'Surfline Scout' was announced by Surfline (a resource for surfers that I use regularly and provides surf/wave conditions and forecasting) and Trace, a device you attach to your surfboard to "Relive those epic sessions with GPS maps, wave count, top speed, calories burned, biggest turn, and much more" (I don't have one).